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单词 prosopite
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prosopiten.

Brit. /ˈprɒzə(ʊ)pʌɪt/, /prɒˈsəʊpʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈprɑzoʊˌpaɪt/, /prəˈsoʊˌpaɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Prosopit.
Etymology: < German Prosopit (T. Scheerer 1853, in Ann. der Physik u. Chem. 90 320) < ancient Greek πρόσωπον face, mask (see prosopon n.) + German -it -ite suffix1, so called in allusion to its deceptive (i.e. pseudomorphic) character.
Mineralogy.
A fluoride mineral usually occurring as minute, tabular crystals of a colourless, white, or greyish colour, often altered into pseudomorphs such as fluorite, apatite, and kaolin.Prosopite consists of a fluoride and hydroxide of aluminium and calcium, CaAl2(F,OH)8. Crystal system: monoclinic.
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yttrocerite1817
fluocerite1835
prosopite1854
pachnolite1866
thomsenolite1868
tysonite1880
hieratite1882
villiaumite1908
neighborite1961
1854 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 4) 502 Prosopite..occurs at the tin mines of Altenberg.
1899 Amer. Jrnl. Sc. 4th Ser. 7 53 If the assumptions made in the foregoing are justified, the Utah mineral is prosopite.
1951 C. Palache et al. Dana's Syst. Mineral. (ed. 7) II. 122 In the United States, unaltered prosopite has been found in the cryolite-pegmatite on St. Peter's Dome,..Colorado.
1995 Mineral. Rec. 26 554/1 Prosopite is the most abundant alumino-fluoride mineral at the Morefield mine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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